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Namestorm #7 – Baby Names Inspired by Children’s Book Authors

3 Comments | 15 March 2010
Last week, Julie came up with a great namestorm idea: children’s book authors. Here are some to start us off. (To save space, I only listed one book per author.) Charles and Carlo French author Charles Perrault wrote Tales of Mother Goose (1697). Italian author Carlo Collodi, born Carlo Lorenzini, wrote The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883). Johann and Hans Swiss [...]
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Namestorm #1 – Baby Names for Chocolate Lovers

3 Comments | 1 February 2010
I think that baby names that come from sources you love — your family, your values, your interests — are some of the best names going. So I thought I’d write some posts that focus on drawing usable, meaningful baby names out of interests, hobbies, pastimes and other activities that many of us have in [...]
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Names from Children’s Literature – George

Leave a comment | 28 July 2007
Curious George is the simian star of a series of books by Hans Augusto Rey and Margret Rey. The original series consisted of seven books and was published from 1941 through 1966. The Man with the Yellow Hat encountered George for the first time while visiting Africa. He lured George out of a tree using [...]
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